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Benefit Concert and Presentation for the Elphinstone Logging Focus

When:  Saturday, April 14
Where:  Roberts Creek Community Hall, Sunshine Coast
Time:  7:30 to 10:00 pm

Come join us for a fun evening of music, vibrant nature images, silent auction, and an opportunity to build community while supporting efforts by Elphinstone Logging Focus to raise awareness and protect local Sunshine Coast at risk forests.

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San Juan Spruce tree and the Red Creek Fir - some of the Canada's largest trees found right nearby!

TONIGHT! Natural History Presentation: Ancient Forests of BC – Ecology and Politics

The Victoria Natural History Society invites you to join the Ancient Forest Alliance¹s Ken Wu and TJ Watt tonight for a spectacular slideshow and talk on the ecology, wildlife, and politics of old-growth forests including Avatar Grove, Walbran Valley, Clayoquot Sound, McLaughlin Ridge, and the newly found Mossy Maple Rainforest (aka "Fangorn Forest").

Tonight, Tues. April 10th at 7:30 p.m. Room 159 of the Fraser building, UVIC

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This Easter egg is loaded with over $220 worth of gift certificates courtesy of local restaurants and cafes!

Easter Egg Gift Basket Raffle for the AFA!

Now until Easter, enter to win a gift basket containing a giant dark chocolate Easter egg, and loaded with gift certificates courtesy of local restaurants and cafes. The estimated value of this gift basket is over $220!

Come on down to the Italian Bakery at 3197 Quadra st. in Victoria!

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Big Bass not Big Stumps! Featuring the musical stylings of: Grandpa Phunk, Nagdeo, 5am, and Commoddity

When:  Saturday, March 24th
Time:  7 pm
Where:  Felicita's Pub at UVic

Come get your groove on, bring your friends, and join us for a night of SUB-atomic glitch hop, dubstep, and other bass heavy sounds with some of Vancouver and Victoria's hottest DJs!

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Photo by TJ Watt

Harper changes the rules for the environment

Overfishing was partly to blame for the loss of salmon, Proctor said. So was predation by seals, sea lions and dolphins. But particularly galling was the free for-all in the forest industry: bridges and culverts disrupting streams, mudslides silting up the spawning gravel, the shock of blasting for road building killing roe.

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Liberals ignoring committee on raw log exports: Dix

The B.C. Liberal government has, since December, been exporting raw logs that its own advisory committee has been saying should be going to producers in B.C.
 

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Minister costing logging jobs, critics say

B.C. Forests Minister Steve Thomson has overruled recommendations from his own advisory board on log exports dozens of times in the past three months, electing to send millions of dollars worth of raw logs to Asia rather than local mills.

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Bluffs receive high-profile focus

A campaign to protect Stillwater Bluffs south of Powell River received high-profile help from a provincial organization recently.

Jason Addy, of the Friends of Stillwater Bluffs, joined Ken Wu, co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, at a press conference at the Sooke Potholes. The groups were calling on the BC government to form a land acquisition fund dedicated to protecting parkland.
 

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An Afternoon of BC’s Ancient Forests at UBC Slideshow Event

The UBC Ancient Forest Committee (AFC) is hosting an afternoon slideshow event in conjunction with Student Environment Centre's Responsible Consumption Week.
When:  Thursday March 15th
Where:  SUB Room 207/209
Time:  2:30 to 5 pm

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A shot from the 2011 Tree Huggers Ball!

Tree Huggers Ball Dance Party at UVic! (Saturday, Mar. 10th)

This is going to be another huge night of live music, DJ's, dance-offs, limbo contests, prizes and as always, a great crew of folks! Come dressed in any forest themed attire you desire!

DATE: Saturday, March. 10th
TIME: 8pm - 1am
LOCATION: Felicita's Pub @ UVic
TICKETS: $10 @ at the door!

MUSIC FROM: The Stowaways! Compassion Gorilla! Benny The Jett! 5AM! 

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